The Fair Penitent

Archive Listings for The Fair Penitent

Script in Hand reading - T1099109388
11 Oct 11	Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L735952407
T456137681 (TRGEORGIAN08) Rehearsed Reading
24 Apr 08	Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L388272555

Details

Play :: The Fair Penitent was first performed in 1702 and became one of the most successful English plays of the 18th century. Tragic heroine Calista disregards her father Sciolto's wishes for her to marry Altamont, and instead passionately yearns for Lothario, a notorious seducer, but is a love that ends in tragedy.

Author

Nicholas Rowe